The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern WitnessThere emerged, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a reflexive relationship between shifting codes of legal evidence in British courtrooms and the growing fascination throughout Europe with the "primitive" Scottish Highlands. New methods for determining evidential truth, linked with the growing prominence of lawyers and a formalized division of labor between witnesses and jurors, combined to devalue the authority of witness testimony, magnifying the rupture between experience and knowledge. Juries now pronounced verdicts based not upon the certainty of direct experience but rather upon abstractions of probability or reasonable likelihood. |
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Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness Matthew Wickman. For Kerry, Hadley, and Elena, the epitome of expen'ence This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface: Scottish Highland Romance:
Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness Matthew Wickman. This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface: Scottish Highland Romance: A Reappraisal ix Introduction: Experience.
... Scottish Highland Romance: A Reappraisal ix Introduction: Experience and the Allure of the Improbable 1 PART I. STRUCTURE l. A Musket Shot and Its Echoes: The Romantick Origins of the Modern Witness Aftershocks of the Appin Murder ...
Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness Matthew Wickman. This page intentionally left blank Preface Scottish Highland Romance A Reappraisal Phantoms pervade late modernity.
... Scottish Highland Romance A Reappraisal Phantoms pervade late modernity. Archival remnants, con~/hyper-/textual traces, and blinking technologies with their storehouses of undigested information represent but few of the spirits haunting ...
Contents
Experience and the Allure of the Improbable | 1 |
STRUCTURE | 21 |
FEELING | 109 |
Notes | 199 |
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241 | |
Acknowledgments | 251 |
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